Sam Brown (activist)

Sam Brown (27 July 1943-) was an American anti-war activist during the Vietnam War and a Democratic politician from Colorado.

Biography
Sam Brown was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1943, and he served as President of the Young Republicans at the University of Redlands in California during his patriotic youth. However, in 1967, he began to shift to the left due to his opposition to the government's use of the National Students Association for intelligence-gathering abroad and due to the Vietnam War. He worked on Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Democratic presidential campaign, and he served as the liaison between McCarthy and the demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago. In 1969, he became coordinator for the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, which, in April 1969, called for a general strike if the Vietnam War was not concluded by October of that year. On 15 October 1969, in the largest US demonstration of all time, 2 million people took part in the moratorium protests. From 1975 to 1977, he served as State Treasurer of Colorado. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Brown president of ACTION, but he resigned in 1979 after his plan to use Peace Corps workers to fight poverty in the USA was accused of being elitist and arrogant. In 1991, he supported the Gulf War, arguing that it was different than the Vietnam War. He also served as ambassador to the OSCE under President Bill Clinton and as a fundraiser for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.